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The second episode of this special series, tracing the history of one black family through generations of enslavement in America. This episode begins with an uprising by the slaves at sea. In September 1767, they land in Annapolis and the slaves are put on...

The sixth episode of this special series tracing the history of one black family through generations of enslavement in America. This episode begins in October 1824 as Kizzy's son, George, has become a gamecock trainer, and a favorite of his secret father, ...

Part one of the eighth and final episode of this special series tracing the history of one black family through generations of enslavement in America. The program is set in April 1865 as the slaves receive news of the emancipation. Their land is attacked b...

The seventh episode of this special series tracing the history of one black family through generations of enslavement in America. Fourteen years have passed: it is April 1861. The family is now on the Harvey plantation. George returns, to find his son Tom ...

This radio commercial for Pan American World Airways
promotes air travel to Europe. The announcer relates
the story of a man who returns to visit the land from
which his grandfather emigrated. He walks the same
streets his grandfather did and discovers t...

This radio commercial for Pan American World Airways promotes air travel to Europe. The announcer relates the story of a man who returns to visit the land from which his grandfather emigrated. He walks the same streets his grandfather did and discovers tha...

The sixth episode of this special series tracing the
history of one black family through the generations. In
this episode, beginning in May 1939, Alex Haley decides
to quit college and feels uneasy about his new
stepmother. Upon enlisting in the Coast Gu...